(Proxy)
Aldebaran was still in a meeting.
Worried that something might happen to A-Yao, I entered the Breeding Facility ahead of her.
The Magical Girl Association had long since ceased to exist in anything but name, and the Zodiacal had abandoned its defense of this place. Now it was simply shut down, its gates locked tight, with no one guarding it at all.
"Talk about lax security. This is where they're keeping the final boss, after all..."
The isolation door was closed, but that wasn't a problem for me. All I had to do was resonate with the surrounding darkness to sense what lay beyond it, then open a passage to teleport through.
Past the first-floor guard post, I found another enormous isolation door.
All the way down to the Dark Seal on the fourth basement level, heavy doors blocked every floor. There wasn't even any emergency lighting, so I could only use Dark Sense to check my surroundings.
Had A-Yao already gone to the lowest level?
She was the Simulacrum Personality responsible for monitoring the moon, and she'd been granted permission to go wherever she wanted. Even my barriers couldn't stop her coming and going, so these doors probably couldn't either...
Standing before the final door, I sensed what lay beyond it.
But there was only emptiness.
A-Yao wasn't here, but that didn't make sense.
"...A-Yao?"
I passed through the passage and called softly. Nothing was visible in the pitch-black Seal Hall, but the darkness was exceptionally dense. The leak really was severe.
I didn't mind using the power of the great will, provided that power was controllable. Darkness beyond my control was nothing but trouble...
Still, that Simulacrum Personality had the protection of the Earth Crystal and resistance to darkness. Even on the moon, there was no reason